There seems to be a pattern emerging. Most are familiar with the Muhammed cartoons and the violence that was promoted by the imams over those snippets of astute revelation. Most of the liberal media refused to print or show the cartoons.

But what many may not know is the systematic torture and slaughter of innocent Jews in France by Muslim adherents. Mark Steyn, writing in the Chicago Sun Times, notes…

Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey called Sebastien Selam was heading off to work from his parents’ apartment when he was jumped in the parking garage by his Muslim neighbor Adel. Selam’s throat was slit twice, to the point of near-decapitation; his face was ripped off with a fork; and his eyes were gouged out. Adel climbed the stairs of the apartment house dripping blood and yelling, “I have killed my Jew. I will go to heaven.”

…in the same city, on the same night, a Jewish woman was brutally murdered in the presence of her daughter by another Muslim.

This month, there was another murder. Ilan Halimi, also 23, also Jewish, was found by a railway track outside Paris with burns and knife wounds all over his body… his uncle reported that they were made to listen to Ilan’s screams as he was being burned while his torturers read out verses from the Quran.

For the most part the media has chosen to ignore those incidents. I wonder why?

Captain’s Quarters has more on this.

Europe, and especially France, is sitting on a time bomb with its growing and insulated Muslim population. We may have already seen the first signs of explosion with the murder of Theo Van Gogh, but his death is not an isolated incident.

Van Gogh was making a documentary on women under Islam.

Recently Nation of Islam minister, Louis Farrakhan, a U.S. resident, gave a speech dubbed ‘the state of the black union speech.’ It was filled with anti-American, anti-Bush, anti-semitic hate. It was a call to violence. It was a call to burn America. As Rush Limbaugh points out on his website, the media is ignoring this racist, hate filled speech.

From Limbaugh’s website, excerpts from the transcript of Farrakhan’s remarks…

America must be burned! America is no good at all… Can’t you open your eyes and see the house is burning?… The house must burn.

Farrakhan continues, referring to the government…

It has to be abolished and something new and better set in its place. You all got to take your government back because it’s been taken from you by a group of smart, crooked industrialist bankers. You all know what I’m talking about.

When Farrakhan says, “industrialist bankers” and “You all know what I’m talking about,” he is referring to the Jews.

As one caller to Rush Limbaugh’s show, familiar with Ku Klux Klan rallies, stated…

I grew up in southeast Louisiana, and my grandfather was a Klansman. And I used to go to these rallies as a young kid, and what I heard you just play was exactly what I heard when I was a kid. There is no difference between Calypso Louie and the Klan. He’s enraging people for hate to go hurt other people.

Farrakhan is trying to enlist black America in his call for violent revolution.

Why would the media ignore such vitriol… such abhorrent violence, racism, and hate?

I think there is a pattern here; the media won’t criticize radicals who might advocate violence or death to those who would dare disagree with them. The media seems to be unwilling to point out their evil ways. This is particularly the case if it is Islam or Muslim or followers of Muhammed. It looks like the Islamofascists, as some have referred to them, are winning the war of intimidation as far as the liberal media is concerned.

There is another possibility. The folks who run these liberal media operations, at whatever level the power may reside, are sympathetic with the cause, the language, the violence, the Jew hating, America hating agenda of these radical barbarians.

Regardless of the motive the media is setting a dangerous precedent. Are we to understand from this that any group which doesn’t like the coverage of the media, should begin burning publishers’ homes, brutalizing journalists, and destroying those outlets that would distribute their reporting? Should groups who don’t like the press start running through neighborhoods slashing and stabbing people to get their way? Does the media and the academic world (itself involved in quashing freedom of expression) want to send the message that all it takes to shut down criticism is a few building burnings, some calls to violence and a couple of death threats, some carried out to make the point?

Does it matter to the media that people are slaughtered, raped, tortured, starved if those victims are Jewish or Christian? Does it only matter if it can be trumped up to harm America? Is it only white people that can be fairly denigrated and maligned and impugned and railed against? What if white people rose up and began to act like the radical barbarians that the media seems so anxious to protect?

Is chaos the desire of the liberal media and the liberal establishment? Are they deluded into thinking if they can create enough chaos they will have an excuse to step in and take over by edict and the world will then be perfect? Are they relishing the fall of America?

Perhaps it’s a combination of all of these.

What they apparently don’t realize is that a liberal agenda and an Islamic agenda are diametrically opposed to each other. But that is a subject for another day.

BoingBoing is telling those of you in the UAE how to get around the censors. Here is the guide.

The UAE has also banned Michelle Malkin.

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For those of you in the UAE, here are a couple of links that should get you around the censors.

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Pink is making waves with her song “Stupid Girls” which evidently mocks Paris, Jessica, Lindsay and Mary-Kate. As usual, there’s some great truth in the satire. The video is available on the site as well.

Here’s a snip from her MTV interview.

MTV: Everyone’s talking about your parodies of Paris, Jessica, Lindsay and Mary-Kate, but “Stupid Girls” is about more than that, isn’t it?

Pink: People are going to think, “You’re supposed to be a feminist, you’re supposed to be supporting women,” but I just can’t support that, what the majority of these women are doing — or not doing, more like. It’s just this mindless consumer culture, and it’s such a wasted opportunity. Every time I see myself lying on that hospital gurney [in that video] I sort of wince. It’s a $150 billion cosmetic industry, and what does that say about how we feel about ourselves? It’s sort of pushing this image — shop, drink, party, don’t think, shop, don’t think. I just can’t do that.

MTV: Have you read either “Backlash” [by Susan Faludi] or “The Beauty Myth” [by Naomi Wolf]? Together, they basically argue that consumerism acts to divert us. Instead of fighting for women’s rights, we’re fighting to find the perfect shoe.

Pink: Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women’s rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what’s going on in Africa — it stops us from thinking in general. I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that. There’s a lot of questions. A lot of people are into this escapism thing and don’t want to think, and if you force them to think, you become boring. What can you do? I guess I can make videos. And it goes down a lot easier when it’s funny.

MTV: We’ve gotten so much reader response since the video debuted, from fans who love that you’ve come back, to those who’ve called you a hypocrite for making fun of your fellow celebs and who questioned whether or not your aim is to be half-naked as well.

Pink: I love the discussion that’s going on right now. It’s always nice to be missed, but I don’t feel like I ever really went away. I don’t know where I’d be coming back from. There’s always a backlash when you challenge people’s convictions and their heroes. But I don’t do all this so I can be in Us Weekly every week. I don’t do this so that people think I’m cool. I don’t do it for — it sounds ridiculous — the fame or the money. I have incredible dogs, I have incredible friends, I have a gorgeous husband who loves me. I’m good. I love to sing and put my music out there, and I hope I can always do that. But I’m not going to forsake who I am or my integrity to have these things that I can’t take with me anyway. I never said I was perfect, and I never said anybody else doesn’t have permission to make fun of me for what I do. I’m a walking contradiction. I’m a hypocrite sometimes. I’m a work in progress. But I’m working to be better. I’m seeking out smart people and responsible women, and I’m standing up for animals. I’m not making fun of a certain person, I’m making fun of an idea, and I think they’re missing the point. Sexy doesn’t have to come with the price tag of being dumb.

That’s the question being decided by a British court. In an article published by the Times online in London, this lawsuit may even effect the release of the movie by the same name.

The British release of The Da Vinci Code, due on May 19, could be delayed or even halted if a copyright claim by the authors of a non-fiction book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, is upheld.

Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, who co-wrote the book 22 years ago, claim breach of copyright on the ground that the “architecture” or complex structure of their book — its essential theory — was plagiarised in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

It gets intriguing, complete with a character in Brown’s book who has a striking resemblance to the authors bringing the lawsuit, including an anagram for one.

The authors will point to numerous specific references in Brown’s book, including the character Leigh Teabing, whose name, they say, is a tribute to themselves: Leigh from Richard Leigh and Teabing an anagram of Baigent.

Will Brown’s background of secrecy and conspiracy theories be exposed?

He has spoken in the past of his childhood surrounded by the secrecy of the clandestine clubs of Ivy League universities and Masonic lodges.

Mmm… I wonder if that includes the Owl Club at Hervard.

Could this spell the end for The Da Vinci Code and its claim to fame? Is Brown and his book the product of a lie?

Maybe Jesus rose from the dead after all… “…the truth will set you free.”

We’ll have to see what the judge decides.

According to Exodus International over 400,000 people trapped in the homosexual lifestyle have been helped in their quest to escape each year.

Today is the day for Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out” conference in St. Louis. It is a one day conference designed to offer hope to those struggling with homosexuality.

Whether you are an educator, parent, concerned citizen or even a gay activist, Love Won Out will inform, inspire and offer you hope.

Focus summarizes…

Focus on the Family is promoting the truth that homosexuality is preventable and treatable — a message routinely silenced today. We want people to know that individuals don’t have to be gay.

But the militant homosexual crowd doesn’t like it one bit. It appears they have been defacing billboards which read, ” I Questioned Homosexuality. Change is Possible. Discover How.” So much for tolerance and diversity.

As one commenter said…

I guess they never heard of tolerance. They need some sensitivity training so they can interact with people of a different lifestyle than theirs.

So pray for these people as the PC crowd attacks.

Update: LaShawn has some on this as well.

Maybe so.

Illinois State Police in conjunction with the FBI were conducting an investigation Thursday into an excessive amount of money, both in cash and checks, found in a vehicle involved in a deadly multivehicle crash on Interstate 55.

State police investigators along with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force were looking into why a check written for a large sum of money, along with a sizeable amount of cash and multiple IDs, were found in a 1999 Kia Sportage involved in the accident, District Chicago Master Sgt. S. Nowak said.

And New Orleans City Council wants a fresh start.

“We don’t need soap opera watchers right now,” said New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas, during a housing committee meeting. “We’re going to target the people who are going to work. It’s not that I’m fed up, but that at some point there has to be a whole new level of motivation, and people have got to stop blaming the government for something they ought to do.”

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In other words, people will have to express a willingness to work to qualify for public housing, officials in New Orleans have said.

Later in Monday’s meeting, Thomas, who is black, reiterated that his remarks were intended for African-Americans.

“There’s just been a lot of pampering, and at some point you have to say, ‘No, no, no, no, no.’ … If our legs don’t hurt, you can walk somewhere,” he said. “I’m saying these things to motivate my people.”

Kind Hearts. Innocent sounding enough. Worthy of my support perhaps? Think again.

WorldNetDaily is reporting…

A man Hamas identifies as its leader in the United States helped raise $500,000 to build a new mosque in Baton Rouge, La., but channeled most of the money to the terrorist group overseas, federal authorities suspect.

Mohammed El-Mezain coordinates fund raising for an Ohio-based charity called KindHearts, which is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for its potential links to terrorist activity.

The Treasury Department says most of the money raised in Louisiana may have been moved overseas to the Palestinian group, regarded by the U.S. as a terrorist organization, reports the Advocate newspaper of Baton Rouge.

So if you sent money to a nice sounding organization to help with hurricane relief or earthquake victims in Pakistan you’d better know to whom you are donating. It just might be terrorists whose kind hearts don’t include helping people. Their idea of kind hearts is to blow up and maim women and children.

We all need to do our part in the war on terror. Vigilance is imperative. It’s no longer business as usual. Beware.

“A political movement masquerading as a religion,” so says Iranian Amir Taheri, writing for the N.Y. Post.

Here we have a religion without a theology, a secular wolf disguised as a religious lamb.

In an effort to inform the uninitiated, Taheri presents an insightful glimpse into the movement of political Islamofascism, or what he calls “neo-Islam,” juxtaposed to the “religion” of Islam.

That neo-Islam is uncomfortable with the idea of religion as something to do with God is not surprising.

Taheri explains that the problem of neo-Islam is particularly dangerous in the vulnerable West…

Muslims living in the West have no first-hand experience of the intolerance and terror that neo-Islam has practiced in Muslim countries for decades. Instead, they see Islam as an element of their identity and, although seldom going to the mosque, consider neo-Islamist militants as “lobbyists” for themselves.

Anxious to control its constituency within Western democracies, neo-Islam, in its different versions, uses tactics developed by other totalitarian ideologies, notably fascism and communism.

ITS first move was to promote a visual apartheid to distinguish its adherents from the rest of society — in the same way that Lenin, Hitler and Mao wanted their followers to wear specific uniforms.

For men, the props are beards, khaksari (earthly) garments such as shirts falling down to the knees, baggy shalwar (pantaloons), an araqchin (cloth cap), a checkered Palestinian neck-scarf and sandals or shoes without laces.

When it comes to women, the choice of clothes is even more limited.

Once visual apartheid is achieved, the neo-Islamist moves to Phase Two: making his followers brain-dead.

If you’re interested in the “culture wars”, the “west, non-west” conflicts, the “free, unfree” national struggles or the myriad other ways the issue of Islam and its jihad has been framed, you would be well advised to read what Amir Taheri has written.

Whether you agree or not Taheri has provided much food for thought.

One question remains. Why the silence of so many in “religious” Islam? If the neo-Islamists are making all followers of Mohammed look like savage, uncivilized barbarians, why the silence?

Perhaps Taheri will answer that question sometime in the future.

Linda Hirshman, quoted by Good Morning America, is very scared.

An alarming number of college-educated women are leaving the work force to stay at home and raise their children, a trend that is a tragedy not only for the mothers, but ultimately their children and women as a whole.

So said law professor and working mom Linda Hirshman in a 2005 article for American Prospect magazine that has ignited an intense debate among mothers.

Yes, how tragic and alarming that a college educated woman would want to stay at home and raise her children.

Nat Hentoff nails the cartoon jihad showing its roots and revealing the real purpose behind the Islamic attacks.

Writing for the Village Voice, Nat demonstrates this is a strategized attempt to incite violence toward anyone that criticizes anything Muslims do.

Hentoff quotes from a letter he received from John Eibner who was instrumental in rescuing Sudanese from the barbaric sword of the National Islamic Front in Khartoum…

The Muslim states resolved, through these many demonstrations, to pressure through a program of joint Islamic action, international institutions, including the U.N., to criminalize insults of Islam and its prophet. [Emphasis added.]

While Nat doesn’t go into detail about Abu Laban, the imam who was responsible for creating the fake cartoons, he does point to those fakes as the wind fanning the flames.

To begin, the three cartoons that have most enraged Muslims around the world were not among the original 12 in the Danish newspaper. Imams in Denmark toured the Middle East with these additional cartoons—Muhammad as a demonic pedophile; Muhammad with a pig snout; a Muslim at prayer raped by a dog—to show, they said, the degree of hatred in Denmark of Muslims. (They also brought the original 12.)

Hentoff continues, pointing out there was no outrage when the original cartoons (not the fake ones) were published in Egypt in fall 2005…

With the game plan set at the Mecca summit, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Qatar (and its Al Jazeera network) went on to feed the flames. There was indeed outrage, but there had been no such outbursts in those countries when the Egyptian newspaper Al Fager published the cartoons on its October 17 front page!

And he concludes with the astute observation of Eric Fettman of the New York Post…

Before these yieldings to the Organization of Islamic Conference, Eric Fettman, on the editorial board of the New York Post, predicted: “Showing sudden sensitivity in the face of the murderous mobs . . . is to effectively endorse violent intimidation of the press.” To some extent, this has already begun.

Definitely worth reading… thanks Nat.

Is more controversy on the horizon as an increasing number of scientists come forward to question Darwin’s theory of evolution?

Perhaps this quote aptly describes the growing mood (via WND)…

“Darwin’s theory of evolution is the great white elephant of contemporary thought,” said David Berlinski, a signatory and mathematician and philosopher of science with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. “It is large, almost completely useless, and the object of superstitious awe.”

It’s the subject that won’t go away.

OpiniPundit points to this article.

Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name.

This was uncovered by Reg reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address. She could not get it to accept her surname.

Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile.

QuickWired has more.

The Democrats and their media propagandists hate the truth getting out. They didn’t like the Swift Boat vets revealing John Kerry’s lies and his treason (he still won’t release all his military records) and they apparently don’t like a new ad campaign running in Minnesota.

What really has the Democrats and their propagandists in the media riled is that the liberal media is criticized for, of all things, censorship. It is common knowledge that the so-called mainstream media is presenting only negative, bad news, whether real or contrived, as a constant drumbeat to try and undermine Bush and the war effort. Both the Democrat Party and their buds in the media have climbed into bed with al-Qaeda while pretending to ’support’ the troops.

They hate this expose as did John Kerry’s cadre of handlers.

What is really humorous is the effort on the part of the Democrats and their accomplices to censor this effort. They also didn’t want you to know about the Muhammed cartoons and to this date have suppressed the fact that some of these so-called egregious cartoons were fabricated by an imam living in Denmark by the name of Abu Laban. Hasn’t the liberal media been whining about “secrecy” or something over the past week with the Cheney incident? These guys are becoming a joke.

The group behind the effort to reveal the truth is Progress for America.

WND has more here.

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The most telling indicator that this is a terrible decision is that Jimmy Carter is supporting it.

The Bush administration got support Monday from former President Carter, a Democrat and frequent critic of the administration.

“My presumption is, and my belief is, that the president and his secretary of state and the Defense Department and others have adequately cleared the Dubai government organization to manage these ports,” Carter told CNN. “I don’t think there’s any particular threat to our security.”

Frank Gaffney has more.

This is David Gregory, after apologizing for losing his cool with the WH Press Secretary:

No matter how you feel about the White House press corps – and we’re worthy of criticism, and we can take our lumps – this is about how the vice president chooses to communicate to the American people. We are a proxy for the American people.

That one is worthy of “LOL.”

It looks like Muslim “law” says to kill anyone and everyone for the perceived violations of a few; that is except other Muslims who are violaters.

Such is the message being sent around the world by the cartoon jihadists and the silence of the so-called moderate Muslims.

Clearly there is an element in Islam that wants war and violence on anyone and everyone who is not a follower of the Muslim way. And the silence of the rest adds quiet ascent.

Recently, 15 Christians were murdered in Nigeria due to rampages by Muslim rioters purportedly over the Mohammed cartoons. The cartoons have become a charade. They are merely an excuse for violence and attacks against those who won’t bow before the throne of Mohammed.

What the press neglects to tell you is that Nigeria has a majority Christian population. The Muslims however have managed to war their way to control and influence in Nigeria, even imposing sharia law on some provinces. But the media never condemns Muslim atrocities. They are never outraged at such blatant barbarism.

Is the time for worldwide chaos at hand out of which a world ruler will emerge? If the civilized world will not stand up to this insanity that time could be closer than we think.

Lawyers in Britain are urging people who want to immigrate and eventually gain citizenship to pretend they are in a homosexual “marriage” to exploit loopholes in immigration laws.

In some cases these lawyers are already arranging for the “divorce” so that, after the two year “marriage” requirement is served, the “gay” couple will be able to quickly go find a heterosexual mate. Handy, wouldn’t you say?

Is this a ‘help the terrorists’ gain legal status effort? The Brits better wake up. Can the U.S. be far behind?

Isn’t there some irony in Muslims pretending to be gay in order to immigrate to Britain. I guess you can’t exactly expect terrorists to be honest.

Read about it here.

In what appears to be a bizarre turn of events, a Pakistani cleric has offered a million dollar reward for anyone killing someone who has drawn a cartoon of Muhammed.

Looks like Abu Laban, the imam that produced the phony cartoons showing Muhammed as a sodomite and a pig, better duck for cover. He’s pretty visible in the Muslim world and makes an easy target. I wonder whether the Pakistani cleric would pay an army guy for knocking off Laban?

We would suggest Abu Laban change his appearance or disappear for awhile. Wouldn’t want such a creative fellow to suffer any harm.

Where do these poor imams get all their money anyway?

Michelle Malkin has the story.

Austin Bay has some great information on captured documents from Al Qaeda recently released by the government. Excerpts, commentary… makes for interesting reading along with a good reality check.

Check out Al Qaeda’s vacation and medical benefits. As Austin says, almost as good as France.

Bay links to the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.

Reading this makes you realize what a good job the Bush administration is doing protecting our country.

Thanks again, President Bush.